Bernie Sanders criticizes AI as ‘the most consequential technology in humanity’

Republican senator Katie Britt also proposes AI companies be criminally liable if they expose minors to harmful ideas

US senator Bernie Sanders amplified his recent criticism of artificial intelligence on Sunday, explicitly linking the financial ambition of the richest people in the world" to economic insecurity for millions of Americans - and calling for a potential moratorium on new datacenters.

Sanders, a Vermont independent who caucuses with the Democratic party, said on CNN's State of the Union that he was fearful of a lot" when it came to AI. And the senator called it the most consequential technology in the history of humanity" that will transform" the US and the world in ways that had not been fully discussed.